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Framed Image - Psalm 1:2b
Framed Image - Psalm 1:2b
by Revd Dr Michael Moon
TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- • Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) • Insert as Picture in the normal way. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 119:32
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 119:32
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 119:32 Freedom. We may not have been born free, but for freedom we were made and redeemed. Walking near our cottage where I was convalescing I penned these couplets: Free as a fly that dodges the swat, free as a fish that misses the plot, Free as the wind that snaps the twi…
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Second Sunday of Easter Year C
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Second Sunday of Easter Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Second Sunday of Easter John 20.19-31 Gaze on the faces of the disciples, their jaws clenched, eyes half shut, pictures of defeat. So far we have been gazing on expressions of fright and grief, of doubt and confusion. They’ve seen the stone rolled away, and they’ve seen the e…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Jeremiah 31:27-34 Psalm 119:97-104 2nd Timothy 3:14-4:5 Luke 18:1-8 Christians are called to a lifetime of patience, devotion, faith and unrelenting prayer. In the parable of the persistent widow, Jesus’ message regarding prayer is t…
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A Exodus 20: 1-4, 7-9, 12-20 Psalm 19 Matthew 21: 33-46 Today’s lectionary passages begin with the Ten Commandments which enshrined God’s Law for the Israelites (Exodus 20) When God gave his chosen people this Law, it was for their g…
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 10 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 10 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 10 Luke 10: 25-37 Gaze on the victim in this story, the traveller who has been mugged and beaten and left in a stinking alleyway, bleeding and sore, miles from home. Imagine you are that victim. Someone comes near and hears your moans. He peers down at you...
Poem: Be careful you don’t fall
Poem: Be careful you don’t fall
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Be careful you don’t fall Standing on high moral ground is not necessarily an achievement; more like providing a target to be knocked over by personal self-righteous pomposity. Time after time, those who have claimed to be above God’s law, or to have no recognition of its e…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Love, the Law and the Coming Day
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Love, the Law and the Coming Day
by SPCK - N T Wright
Love, Law and the Coming Day ROMANS 13.8-14 When I was at boarding school, I often used to wake up early on summer mornings as the daylight came streaming in from four or five o’clock onwards. I often used to think how silly it was not to get up then. Frequently the day would be …
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Resurrection Plus the name of Jesus equals trouble
Acts for Everyone part 1 - Resurrection Plus the name of Jesus equals trouble
by SPCK - N T Wright
Resurrection Plus the Name of Jesus Equals Trouble Acts 4.1-12 I cherish the remark attributed to a bishop who complained that he didn’t seem to be having the same impact as the first apostles. ‘Everywhere St Paul went,’ he said, ‘there was a riot. Everywhere I go they serve tea.…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 17 Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 17 Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 17 Mark 7.1– 8, 14, 15, 21–23 Gaze on Jesus’ hands wiping the dust of the journey away. Large, tough hands, rough from years of carpentry; prone to splinters, cut from slips of the saw, nails blackened from a slipped hammer. Hands that poured water for friends, drew in the…
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